General-purpose methods for the test framework

The framework provides several general-purpose methods.

Method: getName

getName() : String

The getName method retrieves the value of the object's name property.

The name property can be assigned in the object's constructor or by calling the setName method.

Method: getUniqueSuffixForTest

getUniqueSuffixForTest() : String

The getUniqueSuffixForTest method generates a globally unique string. Possible uses of the string include avoidance of duplicate keys and as a suffix to the test object's name property.

mySampleTest01.setName("MySampleTest" + mySampleTest01.getUniqueSuffixForTest())
mySampleTest02.setName("MySampleTest" + mySampleTest02.getUniqueSuffixForTest())

Method: setName

setName(name : String) : void

The setName method assigns the value of the name argument to the object's name property.

Method: toString

toString() : String

The toString method returns a string representation of the test object.

In the base class implementation, the object's string representation is constructed by concatenating the following values.

  • The object's name property
  • The object's package name
  • The object's class name

The format of the concatenated string is name(package.class).